Hueco Tanks

Credits and Sources

The Hueco Tanks exhibit was written with the help and input of numerous people. Texas Parks and Wildlife Archeologist Margaret Howard and TBH Co-Editor Susan Dial are the primary authors. Dial also created the exhibit and K-12 activities. TBH Editorial Assistant Heather Smith developed the exhibit and interactives for the web.

Articles or reports by TPWD biologist David Riskind, Thomas R. Van Devender, and historian Terri Myer are excerpted in part for use in this exhibit. Archeologist Ron Ralph, Hueco Tanks park manager Wanda Olzewski, TPWD cultural resources coordinator (Fort Davis region) Tim Roberts, and TPWD archeologist Logan McNatt provided images and insights to the effort. Much of the remarkable photography seen throughout the exhibit is the work of Robert Mark and Evelyn Billo of Rupestrian Cyberservices and was provided to TBH courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife. Images from interpretive displays and exhibits at the El Paso Museum of Archeology and Centennial Museum of University of Texas at El Paso are featured throughout. Marc Thompson, director of EPMA, also consulted on rock art interpretations.

Margaret Howard has served as the Archeology Survey Team Leader at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department since 1994. She came to Texas in 1980 to obtain a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She was employed by the private contract archeological firm Prewitt and Associates, Inc. for 12 years, and also worked for 2 years in the National Register Department of the Texas Historical Commission. A past president of the Council of Texas Archeologists and the Texas Archeological Society, Margaret is currently working to increase diversity through the Native American scholarship program for the Texas Archeological Society Field School.

Links

Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site
Official website for Hueco Tanks provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, with helpful information on how to get there, making reservations for camping, and guided tours.

El Paso Museum of Archaeology
Located at the foothills of the Franklin Mountains, this museum features an excellent collection of Mimbres and other regional pottery, displays of artifacts, reconstructed scenes of the past, and nature trails.

Print Sources

Bartlett, John Russell
1854 Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53, Volume I. D. Appleton & Company, New York. 1965 facsimile edition, The Rio Grande Press, Inc., Chicago.

Conkling, Roscoe P., and Margaret B. Conkling
1947 The Butterfield Overland Mail 1857-1869; Its Organization and Operation over the Southern Route to 1861; Subsequently over the Central Route to 1866; and under Wells, Fargo and Company in 1869, Volumes I-III. The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California.

Crotty, Helen
1990 Formal Qualities of the Jornada Style and Pueblo IV Anasazi Rock Art: A Comparison with Implications for the Origens of Pueblo Ceremonialism. In American Indian Rock Art, Vol. 16, edited by Solveig Turpin, pp. 147-166. Joint publication of the National Park Service, American Rock Art Research Association, and Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin.

Lehmer, Donald J.
1948 The Jornada Branch of the Mogollon. University of Arizona Bulletin XIX, No. 2. Social Science Bulletin 17. University of Arizona, Tucson.

Marcy, Randolph B.
1850 Report of Captain R. B. Marcy. In Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso. Senate Executive Document 64. 31st United States Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D. C.

Miller, Myles R., and Nancy A. Kenmotsu
2004 Prehistory of the Jornada Mogollon and Eastern Trans-Pecos Regions of West Texas. In The Prehistoric Archeology of Texas, edited by Timothy K. Perttula, pp. 205-265. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. Download

Mooney, James
1898 Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians. In Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Part I, by W. J. McGee, James Mooney, Cosmos Mindeleff, and Jesse Walter Fewkes, pp. 129-468. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Van Devender, Thomas R., and David H. Riskind
1979 Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Plant Remains from Hueco Tanks State Historical Park: The Development of a Refugium. The Southwestern Naturalist 24(1):127-140.